[jon_richards]

Also texas has 683,533 lane miles of road vs ohio's 262,492 and a GDP of $2,563,508m vs ohio's $872,748m. Seems like they aren't putting that land mass to good use.

[jldugger]

Annual Rainfall per square inch seems like a relevant factor though.

[jon_richards]

Texas averages 36 inches of rain and 2 inches of snow each year. Ohio gets 40 inches of rain and 28 inches of snow.

[jldugger]

> Texas averages ... 2 inches of snow each year.

Really? That does not comport with my experience growing up there.

[wyldfire]

Where is "there"? Texas is a fairly large state, spanning ~11 degrees of latitude.

The climate in Houston differs from that in Arlington, for example.

[gottorf]

"Averages" is doing heavy lifting in GP's statement. It's a vast state, after all, and how meaningful is an average between the climates of Houston and El Paso?

[vuln]

Climate trends change over the years. How long ago did you grow up there?